Delaine Heritage Trust, 8 Spalding Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE
Tel 01778 422866 enquiries@delaineheritagetrust.org
Delaine Heritage Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
Registered Charity
No: 1164647
Member of:
National Association of Road Transport Museums
The Leyland Society
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The Delaine Heritage Trust was established in 2015 by the Delaine-Smith family. To
establish and maintain a museum for the benefit of the public dedicated to preserving,
promoting and displaying in perpetuity the collection of heritage buses, photographs,
documents, artefacts and memorabilia of Delaine Buses of Bourne, Lincolnshire, one
of England’s oldest independent bus operators for the purposes of education, reference,
research and general interest.
The origins of Delaine Buses can be traced back to
1890 when the family introduced horse-drawn vehicles to take people to local markets.
The first motor bus was introduced in 1919 and daily services from Bourne to Peterborough,
Stamford, Spalding and Grantham were all established by 1923. Today the 30 strong
fleet based on the original site in Spalding Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire is managed
by the fifth and sixth generation's of the Delaine-Smith family and the core business
is still based around some of the original services, with the ethos of quality, continuity
and reliability is as important today as its always been.
The Delaine Bus Museum was
officially opened in 2019 and the centrepiece are the six members of the Delaine
Heritage Fleet, with all but one spending their entire working lives with Delaine
and at least one of them being built in each of the last five decades of the 20th
Century.
The Museum also contains:
- The Delaine Timeline from 1890 to the present
day.
- The Display Office and Workshop
- Captioned A2 photographs of former fleet members.
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Documents, Artefacts and Memorabilia relating to Delaine and the wider bus industry.
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A tribute to Coachbuilders WS Yeates of Loughborough.
- The story of neighbour Raymond
Mays, pioneer Racing Driver and founder of the ERA & BRM Motor Racing teams whose
factories are now part of the Delaine premises.
DELAINE BUS MUSEUM
8 Spalding Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9LE
PRE-BOOKED GROUP
VISITS
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Evenings & Saturdays
between the second Saturday
of March and October
New for 2021
Heritage Bus Ride (approx 30mins) at 1.30pm
featuring one of our buses
from the 1950s or 1960s
Light Refreshments available
Subject to Government restrictions
we are planning to re-open on Saturday 13 March
2021
OPENING TIMES
Second Saturday of the month (March-October) 12.00pm - 4.00pm
Admission:
Adults £2, Under 16s Free
(excluding Event days)
(Under 16s must be accompanied by
an Adult)
PRE-BOOKED GROUP VISITS
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Evenings & Saturdays
between
the second Saturday of March & October
EVENTS 2021
Heritage Bus Running Day: Saturday
25 September
frequent bus rides featuring the Delaine Heritage Fleet & guest vehicles